Friday, July 15, 2011

Top 10 tales of Americans in Europe

Esi Edugyan is the author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues.

For the Guardian, she named her top ten tales of Americans in Europe, including:
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler

Best read with a vintage scotch and a fine Cohiba in hand. Scrappy, savagely witty, this is written as the memoirs of one Barney Panofsky, a boozy television producer trying to defend himself from accusations of murder. Although a good deal of the novel is set in Montreal, the funniest scenes take place in Paris, where Barney's band of louche, wannabe writers bum around hoping to become the next Hemingways and Fitzgeralds. As painfully moving as it is hilarious.
Read about another book on the list.

Also see: Alex Berenson's five favorite books on Americans abroad and Charles Glass's five books on Americans abroad.

--Marshal Zeringue